Featured Artists
Alasdair Brotherston – animator / director
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Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, Alasdair has directed several music promos which have gone on to receive international interest at screenings worldwide.
His promos for Tom Fun Orchestra and Ladyfuzz have both been showcased on BBC Film Network and he recently won Best Music Video awards at the London Short Film Festival 2009 and Nickel Independent Film Festival 2009. Following a successful collaboration on the video Throw Me To The Rats, Alasdair teamed up with artist Jock Mooney and the pair signed to multi award winning animation studio Trunk Animation.
Alice Nairn
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Barbara MacLeod – jeweller
www.barbara-macleod.com
Graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College in 2007.
Barbara brings her love of vintage decorative lace, wallpaper/fabrics and architectural features into a contemporary setting by adopting modern techniques and processes.
She starts with the use of 3D modelling packages to experiment, compose and create decorative patterns and forms in new and exciting ways. She then draws the selected design components in a 2D vector illustration package. This vector art work is photo etched on to silver sheet.
By working in this fashion Barbara dispels the myth and association, that the use of the computer means a cold, sterile, futuristic aesthetic. In stark contrast to this Barbara in fact embraces modern technologies in order to achieve timeless, contemporary pieces inspired by bygone decorative arts.
She largely applies a specific palette of subtle, feminine colours with cold enamel at different stages of production to her pieces. Once cured she sands back and buffs to reveal decorative patterns. The components are formed and assembled together through a variety of techniques. She works mainly with silver, 18ct gold and semi precious stones.
Barbara`s awards include the Scottish Arts Council start up grant, Licentiate of Merit of Distinction by the Society of Designer Craftsmen, The Richard Farrow Gold Medal award commission and the Goldsmiths precious metal bursary. She exhibits her work in galleries and outlets across the country. Her workshop is located in the remote Scottish Highlands.
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‘everwarm’ January 2006.Red Deer Skin, electric blanket element sewn on underside to replicate the veins and capillaries of the deer.
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Charlotte Watters – sculptor and jeweller
www.charlottewatters.co.uk
Underpinning my work is a continuing exploration of landscape; my interpretation of a geographical context, of an out- door environment. At times this ventures towards 'wilderness', as subject matter and muse, and a wilderness of form within the work.
This broad inspiration develops into a spectrum of themes of; history, geology, Scale and Time, environmental shifts, human and animal habitation, and co-existence and presence in potentially hostile environments.
Through my work these main themes overlap and intertwine. The scales of these themes oscillate between a personal individual scale and a larger- global, geological, geographical one.
This over lapping and double exposure of ideas and imagery develops and constructs possible metaphors in my work.
This has manifested as sculptural and installation works and drawings.
My interpretation of land selectively investigates the different aspects and facets of it; from the explorers of the past, to the ‘gear’ culture and some of the exploitative issues of today, and my own personal experiences and considered emotions which I subconsciously develop, through my engagement with land.
It is the human involvement, connection or understanding, (or disengagement) with landscape which triggers my investigations into these environments. This has manifested in my work through choice of materials and with themes of Scale.
The dislocating power of an altered scale can render something unwieldy. I am interested in the interface between human scale and the larger, the vast.
Charlotte Watters
Frances Fogg
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Born in the North West of Scotland, Frances attended Ullapool Primary and High Schools. Her early childhood in the 1950s and 60s in the isolated coastline of Northern Scotland provided her with a close love and feeling for nature and the elements. A high proportion of Frances’s work is driven from these influences. The sharp lines, varied colours and textures seen in the environment are brought with a distinctive and often quirky vividness to her work by a highly developed and unique technique combining printing ink and mark making using unconventional tools.
In addition to her art work, Frances has taken her affinity with the sea and shoreline to create 3D work using driftwood, glass and other seeming detritus washed up by the tides. Frances has been recognised as a refreshing addition to the illustration/design market and her work has been sought after and used worldwide.
Holly Lockie
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Lives and works on Tanera Mhor, Summer Isles
Martin Minton – photographer
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Matt Stockl
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Rosie Macgregor
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I was born and brought up in Ullapool, I have a very big and close family and a lot of my work is based around and influenced by them. My Grandad was a self taught artist and taught me a lot as I was growing up and his passing away influenced a lot of my work, especially as he left behind hundreds of photos from his life which I often include, and has now lead to a fascination with photographs.
I attended Eleanor White's portfolio course at Bridge House Art in Ullapool whilst in my final year at school and now attend Duncan of Jordanstone college of art in Dundee and am beginning second year in Fine Art in September.
Suzy Lee - photographer
My visual practice is based on the experience of the car journey. The work takes the form of performance, documentary photography, book making, short slide projections and sculpture.
A particular artist that has had distinct relevance to this type of work has been Ed Ruscha. “Ruscha drove the distance between LA and Oklahoma City several times,
often documenting it by taking snapshots of gas stations along U.S Route 66 that record the experience of the drive. Although many of the photographs were shot from across the road, several images are framed by the visual parameters set by the car window. They appear to be taken from the special perspective of the dashboard.” Jaleh Monsor, October 111
My work tries to capture the essence of a journey, the banality of the dialogue while traveling; it often hovers between the private and the public. The artist books I make are very personal accounts of a particular journey and in their very nature quite discreet, but the road signs sculptures bring the relationship back into the public domain. They are more assertive and determined where as the books are slow moving and delicate. The work engages issues such as my relationship with my family, the landscape, the experience of place and identity within it, memory, how to locate myself within that landscape and navigate through it.
The work has a sequential aspect; this is shown in the slide projections and in the books. The build up of dialogue of an everyday conversation is layered with documentation of the journey both video and photography. The continual sequence of similar images and trivial conversation puts the viewer into the experience of the journey.
The fundamental nature of my work deals with pace, timing, relationships and dialogue. Films such as Peel by Jane Campion have influenced me. The simplicity of subject matter juxtaposed with the complexity of the relationship between the family in the film, this is something I want to create in my own work.
Tiril Planterose
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After just completing my first year of general foundation at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art I am starting my first year of Fine Art.
Coming from the idyllic surroundings of Ullapool and learning to adapt and change my perceptions and experiences of the city of Dundee has been a learning curve.
Previously tutored by Eleanor White, I have been encouraged to focus on painterly process and been influenced greatly by surrounding environment of natural form and element. So it has been a struggle this year to find comforting and reliable sources for my work. Instead I have tried to engage with the unanticipated and unpredictable nature and stories of the city life to source my inspiration.
T o have another opportunity to produce work with mountains, forests and sea in mind has certainly been a relief. These pieces run through the ideas of what home means to me and attempts to explain my upbringing around art through the use of mixed media, texture, colour and light. This work is based on a rowan tree that sits outside my room in the forest and reminds me where my roots lie.
